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In July, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot dead on the front steps of his palatial home on Miami’s glamorous South Beach. Later this month, Ryan Murphy’s TV dramatisation of his murder, American Crime Story: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace, will air on US network FX. The Versace family are not happy: on Monday, they broke their silence, declaring the nine-episode series to be “a work of fiction”.

Versace was the last person of five killed in a spree by deranged murderer Andrew Cunanan, a social climber and purported escort who was obsessed with glamour and fame. In the summer of 1997, he attracted a high-profile manhunt as one of the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives before, eight days after Versace’s...